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Translation of wrecker in Spanish:

wrecker

provocador de naufragios, n.

Pronunciation /ˈrɛkər//ˈrɛkə/

noun

This also allows her to examine those peculiarities of current and shoreline that make stretches of water like the Pentland Firth such rich pickings for local wreckers.

Quoyle learns about his ancestors, who were pirates and wreckers, gets a job as a reporter on the local rag and meets Wavey Prowse who teaches the children at the school.

So many ships have foundered along this coast, driven onto its reefs by storms or lured there by wreckers ' lights, that pieces from Spanish galleons still wash up with the tide.

It may look benign on a calm day, but the North Devon coast is a wrecker's paradise.

2US

(demolition worker)

obrero de demolición masculine

obrero de derribo masculine

At the end of the day, have the wreckers remove the vehicles to a holding facility, where they are then collected after payment of the fines and wrecking fee.

No trace of the buildings exists now that the blue-uniformed wreckers and bulldozers have done their work.

The dealer was just going to give it to the wreckers but I went and rescued it.

If a vehicle is deregistered, sold to a motor wrecker, then purchased by somebody who decides to repair that vehicle, it can be repaired.

Just a walk from here, two houses more are ready for the wrecker.

The family car should have been at the wreckers, but it wasn't.

I'm all for calling the wreckers and getting them to take it away.

There is the odd door way that the wreckers left standing, but the original shikumen houses were demolished to provide space to build.

Most wreckers dismantle cars they've bought at auctions of vehicles written off by insurance companies.

Smash repairers and wreckers say these copied parts are often inferior in quality, safety and fit.

New South Wales is the only state where wreckers have to account from where they got their parts.

Since then, I've put some more thought into it and probably the easiest way of making a bow prod is to get an old leaf spring from a car wrecker.

3US

(car dismantler)

desguazador masculine

deshuesador masculineMexico

4US

(tow truck)

grúa feminine

The driver of the wrecker summoned to remove the damaged cars was also charged for not displaying his number plate.

They were nice enough to call a wrecker for me but once he showed up the police and the other driver drove their separate ways.

Back on the police wrecker again; have you heard that they are not adhering to the prescribed procedures for the towing away of vehicles?

For instance, a maintenance mission would require a wrecker or at least a HMMWV manned with mechanics, tools, and a tow bar.

Unable to recover the vehicle or abandon it, a wrecker was the next best option.

The FWTD augments the recovery capability by performing the towing functions, leaving the wrecker free for other recovery situations, such as overturned vehicles.

Lanes one and two of the motorway were closed for about an hour while two wreckers were used to drag the lorry from the ditch.

Maneuvering a heavy, expanded-mobility tactical truck wrecker into position often was a challenge in the crowded streets of an urban environment.

A wrecker to take the car that same distance cost $300.

Creative parking on the sidewalks and in no-parking zones would have been good feeding ground for the police wreckers.

Along with the chase vehicles, several wreckers also will be waiting along the course.

The armored box could be lifted by a 5-ton wrecker or a 10,000-pound forklift, so it could be moved from one vehicle to another in case the vehicle it was mounted on became not mission capable.

In the event a fuel truck broke down, one of the empty fuel trucks could transfer the fuel, and a HEMTT or a 10-ton wrecker could then recover the broken fueller.

Since the car park was closed to give way to the planned development of the $300 million complex, visitors to San Fernando have been starved for parking and played cat-and-mouse with the police wrecker on a daily basis.

I arrived at the scene and waited for the medical team to leave and the fire department and highway patrol to finish before I could start the job of loading what was left of this mangled vehicle onto the back of my wrecker.

I have weighted the recovery team with not only ambulances and a physicians assistant, but also a wrecker or a CH - 47 with a maintenance team to recover the vehicle.

Several police officers were on the scene and a wrecker was called out to remove illegally parked vehicles.

Police escorted the Mack wrecker, with the two-tonne chopper in tow, on its 8km journey to Sydney Airport where maintenance repairs could be conducted.

5informal

(destructive person)

destrozón masculineinformal

destrozona feminineinformal

It's those Germans again, those familiar wreckers of English footballing dreams.

It illustrates the lengths to which peace-wreckers, and men of violence, are prepared to go to to scupper hopes of harmony and disturb political stability.

The wreckers are thought to have struck late on Friday night and again on Saturday - ironically just around the corner from Ilkley Police Station.

For years now the park has been a haven for glue sniffers, teenage drinkers and wreckers.

To top it off, she was a relationship wrecker.

And within weeks the lack of security has taken its toll with wreckers causing thousands of pounds of damage.

She reportedly told a close friend: ‘I've been painted as the Wicked Witch of the West and a marriage wrecker.’

During our longstanding dispute over a pay rise, this Government accused us of being wreckers.

The thefts have led John McCormack, 74, an allotment holder from Canterbury Avenue, Little Horton, to call for fences to be put up to keep the wreckers at bay.

This, after all, is the man who can praise public service workers to the skies and then, almost in the next breath, dismiss them as wreckers.

A twice-married judge accused of having an affair with a friend's wife was branded a family wrecker last night.

Suddenly I was being portrayed as someone I didn't recognise - a heartless, predatory marriage-wrecker.

Organisers of the village's Britain in Bloom entry say they will not let the wreckers win.

Two of the wreckers, aged only six and eight, were below the age of criminal responsibility but two others, aged 13 and 12, were charged with criminal damage and referred to Salford Youth Court.

Not all holiday indulgences are diet-wreckers.

Church leaders were today surveying the damage after the wreckers broke into the Church of the Nazarene last night.

The vandalism - ranging from the petty to the downright life-threateningly dangerous - is leading to justifiable discontentment among residents who have to live in the midst of the wreckers.